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can assembly language be dispensed with ?

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http://www.unix.com – Hi. I learned C in high school and am proficient in it:D. At the college while learning microcontrollers there was a short course on assembly language which I skipped:p but had no trouble as most of the application programming had to be done in C. Should I go back n learn assembly language as I have heard it gives good insight into the hardware? Is it at of any (significant) use in embedded systems? (HowTos)

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This is hard to word/ask so please bear with me:

When we see the output of assembly, this is what is going to be executed on the core(s) of the CPU. However, if a CPU has multiple cores- is all of the assembly executed on the same core?

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dont get me wrong.